At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical projects in aerospace, shaping the future of flight with innovative systems engineering.
- Company: GKN Aerospace, a leader in reimagining air travel for a greener future.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career development opportunities, and a chance to work on cutting-edge technology.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team at our Global Technology Centre in Bristol with excellent growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in aerospace by championing modern engineering practices and tools.
- Qualifications: Expertise in systems engineering lifecycle and hands-on experience with requirements management tools.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Job Description GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener.
We are seeking a Principal Engineer with a strong background in Systems Engineering to help shape the future of flight and deploy a modern systems engineering ethos across our portfolio.
Job Summary Based at our Global Technology Centre in Bristol, the Principal Engineer will provide technical leadership across the full technology engineering lifecycle, evolving and embedding systems engineering capability across the portfolio and championing the use of Model Based Enterprise toolsets.
Responsibilities Provide technical leadership across the full technology engineering lifecycle using appropriate Systems Engineering methods.
Evolve and grow our capability by embedding systems engineering into each discipline within the portfolio and beyond to stakeholders and customers.
Ensure that systems engineering principles are applied consistently across the portfolio of programmes.
Champion the use of Model Based Enterprise toolsets to better manage technical projects, knowledge and progress.
Define and maintain a Systems Engineering Framework that aligns to technology development in aerospace and is tailored to the organisation's portfolio.
Champion Codebeamer as the tool for requirements capture and decomposition, Agile tasking across teams, dashboard compliance reporting for safety, quality, and regulatory requirements, and Wiki knowledge management.
Manage, coach, support and develop the systems personnel reporting to the Principal Systems Engineer, including career progression, annual appraisals and clear goal setting.
Develop a strategic plan for delivery of key systems programme aims.
Qualifications Expertise in the systems engineering lifecycle (ISO/IEC 15288, INCOSE) with experience in MBSE (e. g.
Sys ML).
Hands‑on experience using Codebeamer (or similar tools) for requirements management, traceability, and reporting.
Strong knowledge of requirements elicitation, decomposition, interface management, V
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